acerbes
\a.sɛʁb\
The verdict
“acerbes” is uncommon French (frequency #52,458 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,458
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de acerbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acerbes · acerbes · French
acerbes · rank #52,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,458
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accrochait
Nearest frequency peer: accrochait (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « acerbes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abyssal
abyssal
47,546 corpus weight
- accompagnem…
accompagnements
47,545 corpus weight
- accrochait
accrochait
47,544 corpus weight
- acerbes
acerbes
47,543 corpus weight
- Ackermann
Ackermann
47,542 corpus weight
- Acton
Acton
47,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acerbes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acerbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acerbes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acerbes is uncommon French at frequency #52,458 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.sɛʁb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de acerbe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for acerbes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is acerbes, spelled A-C-E-R-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de acerbe.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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